{"id":48360,"date":"2023-08-04T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=48360"},"modified":"2023-08-01T15:24:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T20:24:28","slug":"augusts-celebrity-book-club-picks-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/augusts-celebrity-book-club-picks-3\/","title":{"rendered":"August’s Celebrity Book Club Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a new month which means that Jenna Bush Hager and Reese Witherspoon have picked new books for their book clubs! Reminder that if you join\u00a0Simply Held<\/a>, these titles will automatically be put on hold for you.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Jenna Bush Hager has selected\u00a0Summer Sisters<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Judy Blume for her August pick.<\/p>\n

Curious what Summer Sisters <\/strong><\/em><\/a>is about? Check out the following description provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n

In the summer of 1977, Victoria Leonard\u2019s world changes forever when Caitlin Somers chooses her as a friend. Dazzling, reckless Caitlin welcomes Vix into the heart of her sprawling, eccentric family, opening doors to a world of unimaginable privilege, sweeping her away to vacations on Martha\u2019s Vineyard, an enchanting place where the two friends become \u201csummer sisters.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Now, years later, Vix is working in New York City. Caitlin is getting married on the Vineyard. And the early magic of their long, complicated friendship has faded. But Caitlin begs Vix to come to her wedding, to be her maid of honor. And Vix knows that she will go\u2014because she wants to understand what happened during that last shattering summer. And, after all these years, she needs to know why her best friend\u2014her summer sister\u2014still has the power to break her heart.<\/em><\/p>\n

This title is also available in large print.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Reese Witherspoon has selected\u00a0Tom Lake<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Ann Patchett for her August pick.<\/p>\n

Curious what Tom Lake <\/strong><\/em><\/a>is about? Check out the following description provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n

In the spring of 2020, Lara\u2019s three daughters return to the family’s orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today.<\/em><\/p>\n

This title is also available as a Libby eBook, Libby eAudiobook, and in large print.<\/p>\n

Join\u00a0Simply Held<\/a>\u00a0to have Oprah, Jenna, and Reese\u2019s adult selections automatically put on hold for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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